31973R1298

18 . 5 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 131 /33

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1298/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 15 May 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked nor of optical glass, falling within subheading No 70.14 B, originating in Hong Kong, to which the pre­ ferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN not optically worked nor of optical glass, falling COMMUNITIES, within subheading No 70.14 B, the ceiling, calcu­ lated as indicated above, should be 281 000 units of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ account, and therefore the maximum amount pean Economic Community ; 56 200 units of account ; whereas on 20 April 1973 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No the amounts of imports into the Community of illu­ 2762/72 ( x ) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ minating glassware, signalling glassware and optical ential tariffs in respect of certain products origi­ elements of glass, not optically worked nor of nating in developing countries, and in particular optical glass, falling within subheading No 70.14 B, Article 4 (2) thereof ; originating in Hong Kong, a country covered by pre­ ferential tariff arrangements , reached that maximum Whereas Article 1 ( 3 ) and (4) of that Regulation amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties Regulation (EEC) No 2762/ 72, which provides that may, for each category of products, be suspended maximum amounts should not be exceeded, up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of Common Customs Tariff duties should be account, which will usually be equal to the sum re-established in respect of the products in question arrived at by adding together the value of the in relation to Hong Kong ; products in question imported cif into the Commu­ nity in 1968 and coming from countries and terri­ tories covered by those arrangements, but not HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : including products coming from countries and terri­ tories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and Article 1 5 °/o of the value of 1970 cif imports coming from other countries and from countries and territories As from 21 May 1973 , Common Customs Tariff already covered by such arrangements ; duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regula­ tion ( EEC ) No 2762/ 72 of 19 December 1972 , Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts shall be re-established in respect of the following for products originating in any one of the countries products, imported into the Community and origi­ or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation nating in : should be within a maximum Community amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the excep­ CCT tion of certain products for which the maximum heading Description of goods amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated No in Annex A to thai Regulation ; whereas, for those 70.14 B Illuminating glassware, signalling glass­ products, this reduced percentage will be 20 % ; ware and optical elements of glass, not Whereas Article 2 ( 2 ) of that Regulation provides optically worked of optical glass : that the Common Customs Tariff duties may be B. Other re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said countries or territories once the relevant Article 2 Community maximum amount has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third Whereas , in respect of illuminating glassware, day following its publication in the Official journal signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, of the European Communities .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels , 15 May 1973 . For the Commission The President François-Xavier ORTOL.I

(*) OJ No L 296 , 30 . 12 . 1972 , p . 15 .